NEA: FY 2005 GRANT AWARDS: Access to Artistic Excellence

FY 2005 Grant Awards: Access to Artistic Excellence

Some details of the projects listed below are subject to change, contingent upon prior Endowment approval.

MEDIA ARTS

African Film Festival, Inc.
New York, NY
$20,000
To support the 12th New York African Film Festival and the 9th edition of the African Film Festival Traveling Series, which tours 10 American cities. The program will present an overview of the last 50 years of African cinema.

American Museum of the Moving Image
Astoria, NY
$15,000
To support several curated film series. Repertory Nights, World Cinema Fridays, and The New York Film Critics Circle will feature screenings of more than 75 feature films and personal appearances by filmmakers, curators, and critics.

Ann Arbor Film Festival, Inc.
Ann Arbor, MI
$20,000
To support the 43rd Ann Arbor Film Festival. More than 125 films will be presented to an audience of approximately 17,000 people in Michigan and other states where the festival tours.

Anthology Film Archives
New York, NY
$15,000
To support the preservation of films by Wallace Berman and Greg Sharits. Anthology Film Archives holds the originals or top sources for all titles to be preserved.

Art Institute of Chicago (on behalf of Gene Siskel Film Center)
Chicago, IL
$25,000
To support New Criterion Cinema. This curated film series will present premieres of contemporary American independent and foreign films, as well as domestic and international classic works to an estimated audience of 23,000 people.

Art Institute of Chicago (on behalf of Video Data Bank)
Chicago, IL
$40,000
To support the transfer of works in the videotape collection from analog to digital Betacam format. The transfer will facilitate distribution on DVD and allow the titles to be viewed through video streaming on the Web.

Asian CineVision, Inc.
New York, NY
$10,000
To support the 28th Asian American International Film Festival. The festival will travel to 10 sites throughout the United States including campuses and cultural institutions in Iowa, Florida, and Nevada.

Asian Media Access, Inc.
Minneapolis, MN
$10,000
To support the 10th Annual Chinese Film Showcase. Comedy in Chinese Cinema will feature more than 25 films from Hong Kong, China, and Taiwan.

Aspen Filmfest (Independent Films)
Aspen, CO
$15,000
To support the Aspen Shortsfest film festival. Short, live action, animation, and documentary films from the United States and abroad will be showcased.

Austin Film Society
Austin, TX
$25,000
To support the presentation of a curated film and video series. More than 55 films will be shown to an estimated audience of 20,000 people.

BAVC (Bay Area Video Coalition, Inc.)
San Francisco, CA
$75,000
To support ongoing, low-cost video preservation services to artists and arts organizations throughout the nation. Services include the recording, retrieval, and preservation of video art and art on video, and the dissemination of information to the public.

Berks Filmmakers, Inc.
Reading, PA
$10,000
To support the exhibition of several curated film and video series. Programs will focus on avant-garde cinema, documentary and animation work, presentations by filmmakers, and screenings of films by artists from the region.

California Film Institute
Mill Valley, CA
$10,000
To support a curated film and video series featuring documentaries. The screenings will include guided discussions among guest artists, filmmakers, scholars, and members of the audience.

California Newsreel (Resolution Inc.)
San Francisco, CA
$20,000
To support South Africa After Ten Years of Freedom: A Cinematic Overview. As part of its Library of African Cinema, Resolution will include 10 new titles, in both documentary and narrative genres, which explore South Africa's progress since the end of apartheid. The films will be made available to the institutional market, film festivals, media arts centers, and broadcast outlets.

Chicago Filmmakers
Chicago, IL
$15,000
To support the Independent Film and Video Exhibition Series and the presentation of the 17th Onion City Film Festival. The exhibition series includes a lecture and screening series, and the Onion City Film Festival celebrates excellence in experimental work.

Chicago Latino Film Festival (International Latino Cultural Center of Chicago)
Chicago, IL
$20,000
To support the 21st Chicago Latino Film Festival. Over a two-week period, the Center will exhibit the work of directors of Ibero or Latin American descent as well as films directly related to Latino culture.

Cinema Arts Centre (New Community Cinema Club, Inc.)
Huntington, NY
$10,000
To support International Women's Film Festival and the International Latino Film Festival. Both events will feature films from the United States and abroad, and present guest artists and speakers.

Cinema Chicago (Chicago International Film Festival)
Chicago, IL
$20,000
To support the 41st Chicago International Film Festival. More than 60,000 people will see 130 films from around the world.

Cinema Seattle
Seattle, WA
$10,000
To support the 10th Women in Cinema Film Series. Approximately 25 films will be presented to an audience of more than 10,000 people.

Cinema St. Louis
St. Louis, MO
$10,000
To support the presentation of American independent, documentary, and foreign films at the 14th St. Louis International Film Festival. More than 150 short and feature-length films will be presented to an audience of 18,500 people.

Cleveland International Film Festival, Inc./ Cleveland Film Society
Cleveland, OH
$20,000
To support the 29th Cleveland International Film Festival. The festival presents current work from around the world along with educational programs.

Denver Film Society
Denver, CO
$10,000
To support a curated film series. Approximately 65 films will be presented to an audience of more than 50,000 people.

Electronic Arts Intermix, Inc.
New York, NY
$40,000
To support the Artists' Videotape Distribution Service. Through an online catalogue, works will be made available to libraries, educational institutions, community centers, museums, and other organizations.

Facets Multi-Media, Inc.
Chicago, IL
$65,000
To support the 22nd Chicago International Children's Film Festival and related media arts programs for children. Activities will include animation workshops, a media arts camp, media literacy courses, curriculum development, and special exhibitions of films for children and their families throughout the year.

Film Arts Foundation (on behalf of Madcat Women's International Film Festival)
San Francisco, CA
$10,000
To support the 9th MadCat Women's International Film Festival and national tour. More than 50 films will be presented to an audience of approximately 7,000 people.

Film Forum (Moving Image, Inc.)
New York, NY
$70,000
To support the theatrical premieres of American independent and foreign films. Film Forum is devoted to bringing a broad array of the highest quality new work by young and emerging artists, as well as by more established figures, to a large and diverse general public.

Film Society of Lincoln Center
New York, NY
$25,000
To support a curated film series. Um Cinema Popular will present a history of Brazilian cinema.

Frameline
San Francisco, CA
$15,000
To support a curated film and video series. Open Screen will present short and feature-length work of all genres to an estimated audience of 2,000 people.

Full Frame Documentary Film Festival (Doc Arts, Inc.)
Durham, NC
$20,000
To support the eighth Full Frame Documentary Film Festival. The event will showcase work by emerging, established, and international documentarians.

George Eastman House
Rochester, NY
$35,000
To support The Reel Emergency Project. The 20 titles included in the project -- including films dating back to 1916 -- are in imminent danger of disintegration. Once preserved, the films will be featured in public screenings in Rochester throughout the U.S., and abroad.

Global Action Project, Inc. (consortium)
New York, NY
$10,000
To support Urban Visionaries, a consortium project with the Museum of Television and Radio. This film festival features the work of young filmmakers.

IFP Los Angeles (Independent Feature Project/West)
Beverly Hills, CA
$20,000
To support the Los Angeles Film Festival. More than 175 films including dramatic features, documentaries, and short films will be presented to an anticipated audience of 40,000 people.

IMAGE (Independent Media Artists of Georgia, Etc., Inc.)
Atlanta, GA
$15,000
To support the 29th Atlanta Film Festival. The festival presents the best of current independent film and video to an audience of 28,000 people.

ITVS (Independent Television Service, Inc.)
San Francisco, CA
$60,000
To support the 2005 International Public Television (INPUT) Conference. Held in San Francisco, the conference will bring together media artists and public television professionals from around the world to view productions and exchange information.

Media Arts Center San Diego
San Diego, CA
$10,000
To support the 12th San Diego Latino Film Festival. The event presents more than 100 films from Latin America and features filmmaker Q&A sessions, panel discussions, and workshops for high school students.

MoMA (Museum of Modern Art)
New York, NY
$35,000
To support the preservation of endangered films from the museum's nationally recognized collection. Each year, the museum saves 50 to 100 films by transferring them from unstable nitrate stock to acetate, and preserves fading and damaged acetate films.

NAATA (National Asian American Telecommunications Association)
San Francisco, CA
$20,000
To support the San Francisco International Asian American Film Festival and other exhibition activities. The film festival will showcase the work of new Asian-Pacific American filmmakers and videographers.

Nashville Independent Film Festival
Nashville, TN
$10,000
To support the 36th Nashville Film Festival, featuring student films and videos, documentaries, narrative films, and experimental work. The festival will also present workshops and seminars on writing screenplays, film scores, and distribution issues.

National Center for Jewish Film
Waltham, MA
$20,000
To support the preservation of The Jester (aka Drama of a Clown), a 1932 musical comedy about a father's plans to marry his daughter into a prominent family. The Center's collection contains two original nitrate prints of the film from which the complete narrative can be pieced together.

New Radio and Performing Arts, Inc. (consortium)
Staten Island, NY
$10,000
To support a consortium project to archive work from the New American Radio series. The archival project will preserve contributions by artists such as Pauline Oliveros, Suzan-Lori Parks, and Charles Amirkahnian.

Northwest Film Forum
Seattle, WA
$10,000
To support Deep Focus, a curated film exhibition series. The project will present director retrospectives by narrative and experimental filmmakers in both of the Northwest Film Forum's two theaters.

Ohio University Main Campus (on behalf of Athens Center for Film and Video)
Athens, OH
$10,000
To support the 32nd Athens International Film and Video Festival. The event features narrative work, documentaries, and short films produced in the United States and abroad.

Pacifica Foundation
Studio City, CA
$15,000
To support the preservation of arts-related recordings in the Pacifica archive material. Of the 40,500 tapes housed in the archive, approximately 25 percent represent arts programming. Preservation activities will focus on radio dramas in the collection, and on copies of the publication, Folio.

Portland Art Museum (on behalf of Northwest Film Center)
Portland, OR
$40,000
To support the Northwest Film and Video Festival and its tour throughout the Northwest. The festival showcases new work by media artists living in Alaska, Idaho, Montana, Oregon, Washington, and British Columbia.

Providence Latin American Film Festival
Providence, RI
$5,000
To support the 13th Providence Latin American Film Festival. Approximately 30 films will be presented to an estimated audience of 10,000 people.

San Francisco Cinematheque
San Francisco, CA
$15,000
To support a curated film and video series. Lights! Camera! Action! Performance On and Off Screen will feature media artists who combine film and video projection with live performance.

San Francisco Film Society
San Francisco, CA
$20,000
To support the 48th San Francisco International Film Festival. The festival presents more than 200 films from 50 countries to an audience of 95,000 people.

San Francisco Jewish Film Festival
San Francisco, CA
$20,000
To support the Jewish Film Festival and related activities. The festival, devoted to films on Jewish subjects, premieres films and videos by independent producers from around the world.

Station Resource Group, Inc.
Takoma Park, MD
$20,000
To support Public Radio Exchange's Showcase Program. The Public Radio Exchange (PRX) is a newly created, Internet-based program wherein independent audio producers can upload their work, linking it to public radio stations that can choose pieces for their own programming.

SWAMP (Southwestern Alternate Media Projects, Inc.)
Houston, TX
$30,000
To support the production and statewide distribution of The Territory. As the longest running showcase of media art in the United States, the public television series presents independent film and video works to more than 12 million viewers throughout Texas.

Thomas A. Edison Media Arts Consortium
Jersey City, NJ
$20,000
To support the Black Maria Film and Video Festival and its multi-state tour. More than 60 organizations host the festival each year, which draws more than 700 entries from throughout the country.

Video Association of Dallas, Inc.
Dallas, TX
$15,000
To support the 19th Dallas Video Festival. The event will present work in all genres ranging from documentary to new video art.

Visual Communications (VC) (Southern California Asian American Studies Central)
Los Angeles, CA
$20,000
To support the 20th Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film and Video Festival and other exhibition activities. The eight-day festival is Southern California's showcase of independent Asian International and Asian Pacific American film and video work.

Washington, DC International Film Festival
Washington, DC
$20,000
To support Filmfest DC. The event includes free films for children, senior citizens, and underserved communities.

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